Life is too short for boring stories

Monat: Mai 2018

I got to know you, as it is. We were introduced to each other, shaking hands and muttering something like, „Pleasure“ or „Nice to meet you“. What we have just learned to say so in such a situation. And it was said so, and a bit not. I looked into your eyes when your name …

Just a few days after the strike began, the city resembled a battlefield. On the one side stood the workers, who had nothing but their bare lives, for the preservation of which they ultimately fought. Opposite them were the forces of the executive, police, militia and National Guard. As peaceful as the protests of the …

20,000 workers from at least 25 nations took part in this strike, even though it was said that it was not possible, not with workers, not with migrants. But what was set up under the auspices of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) has no equal. Thus, a 60-member strike committee was formed in …

Workers who were actually in the same boat, suffered the same hardships and were exposed to the same conditions, did not seem to realize that the internal divisions led to the failure to work together for change. All the more remarkable are the occurrences which, seemingly inexorably, took their course on January 11, 1912, as …